By The Associated Press MLB Wednesday American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Baltimore -124 at CLEVELAND +106 N.Y Yankees -138 at TORONTO +118 at TAMPA BAY -200 Chicago White Sox +168 at TEXAS -136 Athletics +116 National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE Cincinnati -136 at WASHINGTON +116 San Diego -146 at MIAMI +124 at ATLANTA
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By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Tropical Storm Wipha made landfall in northern Vietnam on Tuesday, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the country’s north and central regions. The storm came ashore at 10 a.m. with maximum sustained winds of 102 kilometers per hour (63 mph), according to local
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By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released, following the disclosure in March of tens of thousands of documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In January, President Donald Trump ordered
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By The Associated Press The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing for hours over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorizing the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland. Russia now often batters Ukraine with more drones in a single night than it did during
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By DIDI TANG and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump welcomed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday at the White House, as the two countries are seeking closer security and economic ties in the face of shifting geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific region. Marcos, who met Secretary of State Marco
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By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When the “KissCam” at a Coldplay concert landed on a couple who tried (but failed) to duck out of the spotlight, the internet immediately got to work. In hours, the clip was just about everywhere. Endless memes, parody videos and photos of the pair’s shocked
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By MICHAEL R. BLOOD and AMY TAXIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — There are thousands of illegal marijuana farms around the country. But when the federal government decided to stage one of its largest raids since President Donald Trump took office in January, it picked the biggest legal grower in California. Nearly two weeks
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Kansas City Royals plan to call up 45-year-old pitcher Rich Hill from the minors for a start against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday, marking the left-hander’s 21st season in the majors. Hill has been at Triple-A Omaha after joining the Royals as part of an offseason trade. He is 4-4 with
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CHICAGO (AP) — Salvador Perez homered twice and drove in four runs, Jac Caglianone and John Rave added solo shots and the Kansas City Royals beat the Chicago Cubs 12-4 on Monday night. Chicago’s Matt Shaw and Carson Kelly went deep off Noah Cameron (4-4) in the second, but the rookie lefthander was in control
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said on Monday that it has opened an investigation into El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment and human rights violations against Venezuelan migrants. The migrants in question spent months detained in a maximum-security prison in the Central American country after being deported by the United
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By ANNIKA HAMMERSCHLAG Associated Press PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AP) — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals layered like canopies, and clouds of darting fish wove
Continue Reading NATIONAL LEAGUE BATTING_W.Smith, Los Angeles, .323; Edwards, Miami, .295; Stowers, Miami, .295; Frelick, Milwaukee, .294; Donovan, St. Louis, .293; F.Freeman, Los Angeles, .292; Naylor, Arizona, .292; Burleson, St. Louis, .289; T.Turner, Philadelphia, .286; Busch, Chicago, .285; Hoerner, Chicago, .285; Machado, San Diego, .285. RUNS_Ohtani, Los Angeles, 93; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 75; Soto, New York,
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AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING_Judge, New York, .349; Ja.Wilson, Athletics, .323; Peña, Houston, .322; Aranda, Tampa Bay, .316; Kirk, Toronto, .309; Meyers, Houston, .308; Y.Díaz, Tampa Bay, .294; Ramírez, Cleveland, .294; M.Garcia, Kansas City, .292; Buxton, Minnesota, .289; Goldschmidt, New York, .289; Witt, Kansas City, .289. RUNS_Judge, New York, 89; Raleigh, Seattle, 67; Buxton, Minnesota, 66; Neto,
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By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament resumed Tuesday for the first time since the center-left Labor Party won one of the nation’s largest-ever majorities in the May elections. The day was largely ceremonial, with reminders of conflict in the Middle East. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside Parliament House on
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By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press MILAN (AP) — Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala on Monday said he would not step down in the face of a sweeping probe into the city’s massive urban development over the last two decades, saying, “My hands are clean.” The city’s top urban development official, however, resigned while denying wrongdoing. Milan
Continue Reading By The Associated Press The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing of the “Kansas Pick 3 Midday” game were: 2, 4, 8 (two, four, eight) For more lottery results, go to Jackpot.com | Order Lottery Tickets
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By NADIA LATHAN Associated Press/Report for America AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Democrats showed up Monday for a special session but left open the possibility of walking out as a means to derail an unusual summer redrawing of U.S. House maps that would help protect Republicans’ slim majority in the 2026 elections. President Donald Trump
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip. The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him — even a
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By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer President Donald Trump on Monday followed up his lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over last week’s Jeffrey Epstein story by banishing one of the newspaper’s reporters from Air Force One for an upcoming Scotland trip. The moves reflect Trump’s aggressiveness toward media who displease him — even a
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits through 2034, the Congressional Budget Office reported Monday, a slight increase in the projection that takes into account the final tweaks that Republicans made before getting the legislation over the finish line. More
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By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press It took 40 years, but Pee-wee’s bike is now at the Alamo. Just not the basement. The Alamo announced last week it had acquired and would display the iconic bike from the 1985 Tim Burton film, “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” The San Antonio landmark plays a key role in the film
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By The Associated Press The death of Malcolm-Jamal Warner at just 54 was mourned by fans and admirers of the actor, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s Cliff Huxtable on the landmark series “The Cosby Show” from 1984 to 1992 and also starred on the UPN sitcom “Malcolm & Eddie” with Eddie Griffin.
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By BILL BARROW Associated Press The Trump administration on Monday released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been
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By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — For Black youth and teens growing up in the mid-1980s, “The Cosby Show” offered something rarely seen on television up until that time: a sitcom that placed characters who looked like them in a positive light. And Malcolm-Jamal Warner’s Theo Huxtable was the character Generation X most
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By JAVIER CORDOBA and ANDREW DALTON Associated Press SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who as teenage son Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” was central to a cultural phenomenon that helped define the 1980s, died at 54 in an accidental drowning in Costa Rica, authorities there said Monday. Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation
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By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the deadly 2020 Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffing a U.S. Department of Justice recommendation of no prison time for the defendant. Brett Hankison, who fired
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By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was “caught off guard” by the recent Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. Her comments were a rare suggestion of daylight between Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have
Continue Reading WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration releases thousands of FBI records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite his family’s opposition.
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By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — While Bronny James and other young talent were lighting up the NBA Summer League court in Las Vegas, another game was being played just a few steps away: One with scripts, storyboards and studio buzz. Inside the Thomas & Mack Center, just as the
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By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jimmy Buffett ’s widow has accused her late husband’s financial adviser of failing to administer the singer’s multimillion-dollar trust in good faith and ignoring what she believed were her best interests for the $275 million estate. Jane Buffett on Monday asked a judge in West
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